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Hence, rules which have no exceptions grow progressively rarer, and wherever a single exception is discovered the rule can no longer be held as normative.
Some writers, on this account, are disposed to regard Ethics as an art rather than a science, and indeed, like every normative science, it may be regarded as lying midway between them.
Language makes such rules the rules of the community; writing preserves them as requirements and thus exercises an important normative role.
One cannot, in short, define any absolute relationship between the normative sciences and the other branches of philosophy.
As a normative matter, I think it would be a poor choice to apply copyright to the products of synthetic biology.
And accordingly, in interpreting the long history of technological evolution, we take what we conceive ourselves now to be as normative and essential.
I shall not here recall the controversies occasioned by the difficulties inherent in the normative character ordinarily attributed to grammatical schemes.
We should then have applied physical sciences, applied psychological sciences, applied historical sciences, and applied normative sciences.
It would be a theory of individual life as a function of will, and would thus be introductory to the historical sciences and to the normative sciences too.
I shall not attempt, in this address, either to justify or to criticize the name, normative science, under which the doctrines which constitute this division are grouped.
In the very fact, however, that logic is normative in the sense of describing and explaining the norms of correct thinking, its practical or applied character is given.
Yet none of them is or can be merely normative, or indeed as science normative at all; if that were so, they would not be bodies of organized knowledge, but bodies of rules.
Strictly regarded, it is the descriptive and explanatory aspect of logic that constitutes its scientific character, while it is the specific normative aspect that constitutes its logical character.
This formative or normative purpose or end is not freely conceived to enter as an efficient agent in the events discussed, or to be in any way consciously present in the process.
At one extreme, we have the field of normative science, work in which is of necessity that of the individual mind alone.
The nurse reaches out into a body of normative information, transforming that information as understanding is created from within the situation.
Persons with altered levels of consciousness, measured on normative scales developed for medical science purposes, can and do participate in nursing situations.
The perspective offered by a normative discipline requires a reliance on empirical knowing.
In this way it furnishes also the normative scheme for modern accounts of the matter, into which all the other casual notices of the Old Testament on the subject must be made to fit as best they can.
Here come in the legal, moral, and customary ideas, by which society exercises its normative power in reference to the said relation.
Behavior has not in them acquired ethical meaning, since in developed ethics, as normative, such meaning always has reference to the norm, or standard.
When practical concepts and judgments, as a special category of concepts and judgments, have been destroyed, the idea of a practical and normative science has also been destroyed.
Hygiene, not alone dependent on physiology, must derive some of its rules from the chemistry of foods, as well as from the sciences of sanitation and ventilation, themselves normative.
There are two other sciences with which the science of thinking is liable to become confused; one positive, the other normative.
Though the perception of corruption itself is a negative outcome - it is so only when corruption does not constitute an acceptable and normative part of the playing field.
It has even been held, and with some justification, that the entire body of normative tradition at present in existence was forged for a purpose.
Ethics must be regarded, therefore, as a normative science to which sociology and the other social sciences lead up.